Blog: Q&A with Carmine Pariante [about anti-depressants and harms]

Andy

Andy

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Carmine Pariante FRCPsych is a professor of biological psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College, London, and consultant perinatal psychiatrist at the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. He received his PhD from the University of London and his MD from Gemelli University, Rome (Source Wikipedia)

Toward the end of last year, I became increasingly concerned about the behaviour of some of the psychiatrists on Twitter, many of whom were (and still are) belittling patients harmed by brain pellets.

I was hoping to discuss this in person with Carmine Pariante but due to logistics and time restraints, this never happened. Instead, we both agreed on a Q&A.

Sadly, for me at least, communication between us (via email) came to an abrupt end.

My reasons for ceasing communication can be seen in the thread of emails below. I will leave it to readers of this blog to decide whether or not I made the correct decision in ending the conversation.

Carmine wanted the last word but because he opened the questioning and was given ample opportunity to express himself, I have denied this request. I did inform him, however, that he can leave a comment on here if he wishes or publish this Q&A with his additional comment on his own website.
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https://fiddaman.blogspot.com/2019/02/q-with-carmine-pariante.html

 
Had to skim read because of brain fog but does he actually specify which drugs he’s talking about?

Asking because in the opening para he refers to them as “brain pellets”, or something, which I think is unhelpful because ssris and snris do genuinely help so many people, and stigmatising them in this way is unhelpful.

There needs to be more awareness about overprescribing and possible harm, but I’d really like that to be separated out from the type of binary thinking that they’re all bad, for everyone.

If the blogger does make that distinction, apologies, it’s just that reading is difficult at the moment.
 
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